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...said. “He’s a really well-rounded player who can do a lot of things for us.” For a while, NJIT controlled the play in the fourth frame. Though the Crimson took the first three points of the game, the Highlanders strung together a series of kills to open up a 16-11 gap. After a timeout, Harvard turned the tables on NJIT, going on a 12-4 run to establish a 23-20 lead. The Crimson escaped tie scores at 24 and 28 and captured a 30-28 victory...
...There are no ranks in the N.P.A.," Victor tells me, "only responsibilities." But experience makes some comrades more equal than others. Platoon leader Jorex, 41, is a brooding giant with a bandolier of grenades strung across his chest. As a youth, he was recruited by a government militia to fight the N.P.A. but instead defected to the rebels...
...year of a degree in finance and economics and wants to study abroad, says he has lost all faith in Bangladesh's leaders-in "the way they talk, the way they express themselves, the way they act like kids, the way they don't compromise." Nearby, beneath election posters strung across a street and fluttering in a gentle breeze, Nazrul Islam, a father of three, agrees. Nazrul sells flags for a living. The past few months have been tough going-the unrest has halved his earnings to about $4 a day as fewer people have dared to venture outside...
...especially great to get the four points on the road.” The Crimson (7-10-0, 5-7-0 ECAC) has won its last three games and is climbing back toward an even record in league play. Prior to this stretch, Harvard had not strung two wins together all season. The Crimson now has another two-and-a-half week break for reading period and finals before the longest bus trip of the year, to St. Lawrence and Clarkson. HARVARD 3, UNION 2 The Crimson took a 1-0 lead just 32 seconds into Saturday?...
...Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it was dropping a longstanding requirement that holders of amateur radio licenses be proficient in Morse code. These days, few save hobbyists use electronic dots and dashes for messaging. But in 1858, when the first undersea communications cable linking two continents was strung between the U.S. and the U.K., Morse code was the industry standard. A century and a half later, the FCC's move makes it an all-but-dead language...